The BreadCast
Spirit-filled daily reflections on the Mass Readings of the Roman Catholic Church from the book Our Daily Bread by James Kurt (with imprimatur). The daily podcasts are voice only, while the podcasts for Sundays and Solemnities are produced with music and other elements. Another podcast recently added: Prayers to the Saints - a prayer to each saint on the calendar for the US. Also with imprimatur.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 4 minutes
- Episodes
- 951
- Years Active
- 2007 - 2025
December 20 - Second Part of Advent
(Is.7:10-14; Ps.24:1-7,10; Lk.1:26-38) “Blessed are you among women.” “The virgin shall be with child and bear a son, and shall name Him Immanuel because ‘God is with us.’” “The virgin’s n…
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Thu 19 Dec 2024
December 19 - Second Part of Advent
(Jgs.13:2-7,24-25; Ps.71:3-6,8,16-17; Lk.1:5-25) “From my mother’s womb you are my strength.” How the above line from our psalm is reflected both in Samson and in John, and how parallel are the…
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Wed 18 Dec 2024
December 18 - Second Part of Advent
(Jer.23:5-8; Ps.72:1,7,12-13,18-19; Mt.1:18-24) “He will save His people from their sins.” Each of our readings today mentions the salvation of our Lord. The above quote is from our gospel…
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Tue 17 Dec 2024
December 17 - Second Part of Advent
(Gn.49:2,8-10; Ps.72:3-4,7-8,17; Mt.1:1-17) “May He rule from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.” Since “the scepter shall never depart from Judah,” the reign of Jesus…
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Mon 16 Dec 2024
December 16 - Monday of the 3rd Week of Advent
(Nm.24:2-7,15-17; Ps.25:4-9; Mt.21:23-27) “A star shall advance from Jacob, and a staff shall rise from Israel.” And the light of that star is reflected in the eyes of Balaam, who, though a…
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Sun 15 Dec 2024
December 15 - Sunday of the 3rd Week of Advent, Year C
(Zep.3:14-18a; Is.12:2-6; Phil.4:4-7; Lk.3:10-18) “Rejoice in the Lord always. I shall say it again: Rejoice!” “Shout for joy, O daughter Zion! Sing joyfully, O Israel! Be glad and exult…
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Sat 14 Dec 2024
December 14 - Prayer to St. John of the Cross
O mystical doctor – help us by way of the Cross to find wisdom and knowledge of Christ and union with God; let us desire to enter the suffering of the Lord, that by this means we may draw closer to H…
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Fri 13 Dec 2024
December 14 - Saturday of the 2nd Week of Advent
(Sir.48:1-4,9-11; Ps.80:2-4,15-16,18-19; Mt.17:10-13) “Like a fire there appeared the prophet Elijah whose words were as a flaming furnace.” Elijah has come, to “restore everything.” The w…
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Fri 13 Dec 2024
December 13 - Prayer to St. Lucy
O bride of our Lord Jesus Christ, in your virginity and in your dying you have given yourself entirely to the Lord of Heaven and earth. O how like Him you were in your purity and in your suffering! a…
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Thu 12 Dec 2024
December 13 - Friday of the 2nd Week of Advent
(Is.48:17-19; Ps.1:1-4,6,Jn.8:12; Mt.11:16-19) “Time will prove where wisdom lies.” No doubt it lies with God. It lies with the Son of Man, come for our salvation. “I, the Lord, your God, teac…
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Thu 12 Dec 2024
December 12 - Prayer to Our Lady of Guadalupe
O Patroness of the Americas and Protectress of the Unborn, look upon our troubled state, where lust and greed abound, where thousands are killed in the womb every day, where the poor and the rich are…
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Wed 11 Dec 2024
December 12 - Our Lady of Guadalupe
(Zec. 2:14-17; Lk.1:46-55; Lk.1:29-47) “Silence, all mankind, in the presence of the LORD! for He stirs forth from His holy dwelling.” And His own stirring forth causes John the Baptist to stir…
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Wed 11 Dec 2024
December 11 - Prayer to St. Damasus I
O bishop of Rome who guided the bark of Peter through difficult waters, who kept her on the course set for her by the Lord even as she grew in this world from a Church of the blood of martyrs to one …
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Tue 10 Dec 2024
December 11 - Wednesday of the 2nd Week of Advent
(Is.40:25-31; Ps.103:1-4,8,10; Mt.11:28-30) “My yoke is easy and my burden light.” How we do become “weary and find life burdensome.” How we can “faint and grow weary,” “stagger and fall” from …
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Tue 10 Dec 2024
December 10 - Tuesday of the 2nd Week of Advent
(Is.40:1-11; Ps.96:1-3,10-13,Is.40:10; Mt.18:12-14) “Like a shepherd He feeds His flock; in His arms He gathers His lambs.” His is the voice which “speak[s] tenderly to Jerusalem.” It is H…
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Mon 09 Dec 2024
December 9 - Prayer to St. Juan Diego
O humble child of the Lord whom our Lady blessed with her presence, to whom she gave roses in winter – pray for us who are not humble as you, whose obedience is cold and grown so weak, that she might…
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Sun 08 Dec 2024
December 8 (9) - Prayer on the Immaculate Conception
O pure Mother, you are she who is full of grace; it is you who have found the Lord’s favor. Preserved from all sin from the womb, overflowing with all His blessings, you are the hope of our race, the…
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Sun 08 Dec 2024
December 8 (9) - Immaculate Conception
(Gn.3:9-15,20; Ps.98:1-4; Eph.1:3-6,11-12; Lk.1:26-38) “He chose us in Him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and without blemish before Him.” And she is the sign of such pre…
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Sun 08 Dec 2024
December 8 - Sunday of the 2nd Week of Advent, Year C
(Bar.5:1-9; Ps.126:1-6; Phil.1:4-6,8-11; Lk.3:1-6) “All flesh shall see the salvation of God.” Yes, at a particular point in time, in the year delineated so precisely by Luke in our gospel, …
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Sat 07 Dec 2024
December 7 - Prayer to St. Ambrose
O good bishop and wise doctor of the Church – pray for us, that the water that is Christ might pour upon our souls, especially His chosen apostles, your fellow bishops, and fill all with wisdom from …
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Fri 06 Dec 2024
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